Quotes About Economy

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

Globalization is a policy, not an act of God

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us."

was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

More and more, people have begun to chant the economic mantras of Louis XIV's France. A successful restaurant has to do more than serve good food at a good price: it has to create an environment. It's not enough to offer customers a good product: you have to make them feel special by providing a hefty dose of emotion and drama along with the merchandise.

For three straight years—1972, 1973, and 1974—bicycles outsold cars in the United States.

She's nowt spesh, didn't even have any ornaments. All her walls were painted white, no wallpaper, just black and white photos in black frames, big things they were. There was no carpet on the floor, bare floorboards and she could only afford to have one flower in a vase. Who buys just one flower Lil? Bit of a cheapskate if you ask me. All top show and no knickers, I reckon.

[In response to a question about her legacy:] How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—but it might open our imaginations.

Capitalism is a translation machine for producing capital from all kinds of livelihoods, human and not human.

keiretsu "enterprise groups."8

Ukraine might be an economic joke, a place to make cracks about, but it is also a vital buffer-state. With Ukraine independent, the Russian border stays 600 miles to the east and Poland can convincingly call itself part of Central, not Eastern, Europe. Were Ukraine – or more likely Belarus – to lose its independence, Russia would be back glowering over the frontier wire, and Europe's centre of gravity would shift away westwards.

A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

In 2012, corruption even by official statistics was eating up one-third of the state budget.

many, despite the boom in oil and raw material prices, are finally dying.

thirty-thousand-dollar face-lift in the West is perhaps two thousand dollars in Russia

Russia needs to be creative and to go beyond its reliance on oil and gas revenue.

lectures include a discussion of what has happened to Russian industry over the past twenty-plus years.

Tulips, we are told, were the center of life for the bloemisten, as those who grew and traded in tulips were sometimes known.

Who thought of money?

For the company with the three-year plan to double market share, the premortem headline is "Company Fails to Reach Market Share Goal; Growth Again Stalls." Members of the planning team now imagine delays in new products, loss of key executives or sales or marketing or technical personnel, new products by competitors, adverse economic developments, paradigm shifts that could lead customers to do without the product or rely on alternatives not on the market or in use, etc.